Which book are you reading currently? #6

It's the first. The "His Dark Materials" trilogy is 1) The Golden Compass 2) The Subtle Knife 3) The Amber Spyglass

lotsa stuff happened this weekend so I didn't have time to rad, but I'm starting the Subtle Knife tomorrow I think.

 

Gah, it sounds better as 'Northern Lights'.

I finished 'One Bullet Away- The Making of a Marine Officer' by Nathaniel Fick. I would strongly recommend it to anyone interesting in Iraq, Afghanistan or the US Marine Corps. It's a very well written book, containing almost non of the 'gung ho' that Marines are stereotyped with.

Next up, The Art of War- Sun Tzu

 

On a Chris Brookmeyer session.

Just finished "All Fun and Games untill Someone Loses an Eye", and "Be My Enemy", and just started "A Tale etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil."

 

Ack, I finished Half Blood Prince on Saturday but I couldn't find my copy of Deathly Hallows - either my Dad borrowed it without telling me when he went to France or I have lost it somehow.

Oh well, amusingly enough I started on The Golden Compass on the train ride in this morning. My Mom gave me her copy to read a couple months ago but for some reason I was reluctant to read it - probably because I though the movie trailer looked kind of dumb. Anyway, I am not far enough into it to really form an opinion but it has been decent so far.

 

I just finished 'Renegade's Magic' by Robin Hobb.
A fitting end to 'The Soldier son' triology.
Robin Hobb at her best. Strongly recommended

 

Northern Lights does sound cooler but imo The Golden Compass is a more.. appropriate title considering the alethiometer(sp?)

JSBB, it gets better. I found it quite kick ass. Can't wait for the movie.

@Daie

good luck with that. like "The Prince", Art of War is one of those books that I can only read a bit at a time before switching to other books then only going back durin intervals.

 

hard truth...............by nevada barr

 

@Enag I'm reading The Art of War, the Book of Five Rings, and two books on Bushido. See a connection? I'm researching!

 

I finished The Golden Compass. I will say that it is good for now but how good it is will depend greatly on how some questions are answered in the other books. If there is a good enough payoff I may upgrade Golden Compass to very good, but I could just as easily downgrade it. This really isn't a stand alone book so evaluating it at this point really isn't appropriate.

However, I will say that you really can't go wrong with including polar bears as major characters.

Anyway, I will be starting of Deathly Hallows on the train ride home.

 

@JSSB: Whether you enjoy the rest of the series or not depends on what kind of answers you're expecting. Almost all loose ends are eventually tied up, but few of them are in a predictable way. I strongly suggest you read the series all the way to the end - though I will admit the second is my favourite.

 

Children of Amaril, by David B. Coe. only about 100 pages into it but its fairly good so far. Yet another young man getting fetched and dragged away by a wizard though

 

I finished Deathly Hallows again - I liked it a bit better on the second read than I did the first.

I have started on The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman.

 

The Pullman trilogy is great, IMHO.

Just finished Old Man's War, John Scalzi, and enjoyed it enough to order the next in the series. Straight space opera with an interesting concept twist and lots of evil aliens and shoot-em-up. Space operas are Westerns, really.

 

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson. It's a school book. Not bad, it reminds me a bit of Catch 22 or The Things They Carried in its humour.

 

Glen Cook - Passage at Arms

This is his best work. Or at least his best work that I've read. The cover blurb calls it the 'Das Boot of SF' and I think that's accurate.

 

just started the amber spyglass, last part of pullman's his dark materials trilogy. this stuff is awesome.

 

the garrett files.............by glenn cook.....a great author

 

I finished The Subtle Knife on Saturday and I started on The Amber Spyglass today. Up to this point I think the second and third book are not quite as good as the first.

There was one element of the ending of The Subtle Knife that just didn't seem to make any sense. Hopefully there is a pretty damned good explanation coming up but I suspect there won't be.

 

I remember reading Amber SPyglass when I was a kid, with my buddy reading it with me, who was 10 pages ahead. He started crying at one point, which freaked me out, cos I was trying to work out what made him cry.